So, Marnie is going back to her hometown. She's taking Raven with her. When she gets there, everybody's happy to see her, but her mother and a few of the town's folk don't like seeing her with Raven. At the party in the town, Marnie gets extremely drunk and runs into Jonty, who was paid to lie in court against Marnie the beginning of the book. He starts to pick a fight with her, so Raven jumps in and beats the crap out of him. They go back to Marnie's mother's house to spend the night but get kicked out because everybody thinks that Raven's a madman. When they get back to Torcurra, they find out that their cottage had been ran-sacked by Pierce, who's still inside. Marnie tells him to leave and he storms out. Then, in the next chapter, Marnie and Raven are racing. Raven takes Marnie to his "hole" where he sleeps during the winter and the cold rainy days. Marnie tries to explain the word noise using "hand-words" and that the only reason people are afraid of him is because he is different. He gets upset and runs back to the cottage with Marnie chasing behind him. When they get back, a huge storm hits. Raven goes outside to get the chickens and the goat and brings them inside. While he's out there, a tree crashes down on the chimeney and soot and ash burns Marnie's feet. Raven runs back inside to help Marnie and finds a ring that fell out of the chimeny. The next morning, Raven and Marnie go to the church, and everybody is standing outside looking at the tree that broke through the church's glass stained window.
Monday, September 26, 2011
week four
Today I finished my book. Near the end of this book I noticed that the main character Sam loses the sense to hide from people. It all starts when he talks to this kid that is a reporter and he goes off and publishes stuff about Sam. Then I noticed that he talks to people and starts to invite people to his tree. I also noticed that he wanted to be found. I noticed that he becomes a different person in the end then what he was in the beginning. He doesn’t care about staying in known to people; he also starts to think of the company as an everyday thing.
I felt the lost in the sense that he wanted to stay hidden or unknown to the people outside of the woods. I also felt the need to talk to someone while reading this book just like Sam did near the end. I felt the fear that Sam had when the photographer found him. I also felt the joy that he feels when his family comes to visit him, and also the sadness that he feels when they try to make the woods homier for him.
This book reminds me of going camping and hunting and also fishing. This book reminds me of camping by how he stays in the woods and sleeps by the fire and cooks his own food. It reminds me of hunting by how he hunts and traps for animals. It also reminds me of hunting by how he gets deer during deer season because of hunters and how he takes the deer from the hunters. It reminds me of fishing because he goes fishing and also makes a raft to go fishing out in the middle of the steams to catch fish, just like I use a boat to go fishing out in the middle of a lake.
I have only one question and that is about how the book ended. My question is does Sam go home with his family? I ask this question because it just ends with his mom talking to Sam.
I felt the lost in the sense that he wanted to stay hidden or unknown to the people outside of the woods. I also felt the need to talk to someone while reading this book just like Sam did near the end. I felt the fear that Sam had when the photographer found him. I also felt the joy that he feels when his family comes to visit him, and also the sadness that he feels when they try to make the woods homier for him.
This book reminds me of going camping and hunting and also fishing. This book reminds me of camping by how he stays in the woods and sleeps by the fire and cooks his own food. It reminds me of hunting by how he hunts and traps for animals. It also reminds me of hunting by how he gets deer during deer season because of hunters and how he takes the deer from the hunters. It reminds me of fishing because he goes fishing and also makes a raft to go fishing out in the middle of the steams to catch fish, just like I use a boat to go fishing out in the middle of a lake.
I have only one question and that is about how the book ended. My question is does Sam go home with his family? I ask this question because it just ends with his mom talking to Sam.
Week 4: Homecoming
Currently, I am on page 386 of my novel, Homecoming, by Cynthia Voigt. I finally got to the point now where Dicey entered her grandma’s farm and met her for the first time. She went alone, thinking that it would be best for her to see her grandma first so the others wouldn’t be disappointed if things didn’t go well with her. After meeting her, Dicey realized that she was fairly sane. As a bonus, she also had a large farm that the kids could roam around on that was even close to the water. After a bit of confusion on account of where all the kids were, they all came together and, courtesy of their grandma, stayed a night at the farm. They decided that if they kept busy and helped out without being asked, they could hopefully go on living there even though their grandma said they couldn’t stay. Eventually, this plan ran out, but the kids did find out that their grandma wanted them, but she couldn’t take care of them. So, they are now forced to move on and find another place to call home.
Lately, I have noticed that Dicey and the kids are even closer than before. They always cared for each other, but I feel now that they would go even to the extent of going against their deranged grandmother to protect the well beings of their siblings. This greatly reminded me of my brothers and myself. One will go out of his way to make sure I am okay if anyone is taking to me in any way he didn’t think was correct. The other, even though he wouldn’t like to admit it to his friends, makes sure any boy I talk to treats me right, as if I couldn’t handle it myself. As I believe Sammy does with Dicey in the book as well, I greatly appreciate my siblings and am hardly ever embarrassed by them.
In another situation, I notice how even though their grandma cares about them and wants them, she can’t seem to find a way to keep them at her house. However, she is trying to drag out their stay as long as possible. It is in a way ironic because everyone thinks she is a crazy bat of a woman, but in actuality, she has an odd way of showing that she actually does care. I actually have to question if maybe she has a underlying reason for not trying her fullest extent to gain control of the kids like she says she wants to. Why does she give excuses to them that really don’t seem too legitimate to result in them moving on? I still have 16 pages left, so I hope my questions will be answered.
Lately, I have noticed that Dicey and the kids are even closer than before. They always cared for each other, but I feel now that they would go even to the extent of going against their deranged grandmother to protect the well beings of their siblings. This greatly reminded me of my brothers and myself. One will go out of his way to make sure I am okay if anyone is taking to me in any way he didn’t think was correct. The other, even though he wouldn’t like to admit it to his friends, makes sure any boy I talk to treats me right, as if I couldn’t handle it myself. As I believe Sammy does with Dicey in the book as well, I greatly appreciate my siblings and am hardly ever embarrassed by them.
In another situation, I notice how even though their grandma cares about them and wants them, she can’t seem to find a way to keep them at her house. However, she is trying to drag out their stay as long as possible. It is in a way ironic because everyone thinks she is a crazy bat of a woman, but in actuality, she has an odd way of showing that she actually does care. I actually have to question if maybe she has a underlying reason for not trying her fullest extent to gain control of the kids like she says she wants to. Why does she give excuses to them that really don’t seem too legitimate to result in them moving on? I still have 16 pages left, so I hope my questions will be answered.
Post 4
I’m on the last few pages of When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt. So far in the book, Wayne, Cal’s older brother, died in the war of Vietnam. Cal’s mother broke down once military police showed up at her house to tell her the bad news. After that happened, Toby seemed to have pulled back from the real world, just like the rest of the town. He stayed in his house for about 4 days. Toby’s father went to Wayne’s awake but Toby couldn’t go. Instead of going to the awake, Toby goes to the Bowl-a-Rama to get away from everyone. Farris, the owner is there and he didn’t go either. Then the funeral happened; Toby didn’t go either. He went to go see Zachary Beaver. Zachary asked who died and Toby couldn’t tell him without choking up. After that, Cal showed up and was mad at Toby for not going to his brother’s funeral. Everyone in the whole town went but Toby. Cal and Toby didn’t speak for a while. After they resolved their differences, Cal and Toby had a plan; they were going to get Zachary Beaver baptized. They had Farris do it because Zachary didn’t want a lot of people showing up to think he was a freak.
There’s one main thing I really related to in this book. It was when Cal’s brother, Wayne died in war. My boyfriend is in the military so I’m always afraid he’ll get deployed and sent off to war. I know things are a lot different now then Vietnam, but I always have something like that in the back of my head. My whole extended family has a military background. All of my uncles were in the military and served over seas.
There’s one main thing I really related to in this book. It was when Cal’s brother, Wayne died in war. My boyfriend is in the military so I’m always afraid he’ll get deployed and sent off to war. I know things are a lot different now then Vietnam, but I always have something like that in the back of my head. My whole extended family has a military background. All of my uncles were in the military and served over seas.
Eragon and City of Bones
I just finished reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini. The book ended in a big battle where Eragon killed a creature called a Shadow. When he killed the Shadow, all of the Urgal creatures started to fight agaisnt each other instead of Eragon and the rest of the people in the town. The book ends with a happy victory and everyone gets back to fixing up the town after the destruction.
Now I have started a new book called The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. Cassandra won the Locus award for best first novel in 2007.
In The City of Bones, there is a girl named Clary who is with her friend Simon at a punk club. While they are dancing, Clary sees a boy with blue hair and thinks he is cute. She watches as he follows a girl into a closet area and notices that two people are following him. She decides to see what is going on and when she gets into the closet area she finds him tied to a post. There are also three other people in the room. Two of them were the guys who were following the blue haired boy and the other was the girl that the boy was following. She was horrified to find that they were going to kill the blue haired boy and tried to stop them. This resulted in the boy getting out of his bindings and attacking one of the guys who's name she later finds out is Alec. Alec stabs the boy in the chest and he dies in a swirl of black smoke. When Simon comes in with a bodyguard from outside the cub she realises she is the only one who can see those people. This scares her and when she goes home she sees a demon that attacks her and she passes out.
Clary later wakes up in a hospital type bed but she's not in a hospital. It turns out that the three people she had met before had taken her and helped her get better. I ended at a part where she returns home to see how it looks and finds that it has been stripped clean of everything inside.
Now I have started a new book called The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. Cassandra won the Locus award for best first novel in 2007.
In The City of Bones, there is a girl named Clary who is with her friend Simon at a punk club. While they are dancing, Clary sees a boy with blue hair and thinks he is cute. She watches as he follows a girl into a closet area and notices that two people are following him. She decides to see what is going on and when she gets into the closet area she finds him tied to a post. There are also three other people in the room. Two of them were the guys who were following the blue haired boy and the other was the girl that the boy was following. She was horrified to find that they were going to kill the blue haired boy and tried to stop them. This resulted in the boy getting out of his bindings and attacking one of the guys who's name she later finds out is Alec. Alec stabs the boy in the chest and he dies in a swirl of black smoke. When Simon comes in with a bodyguard from outside the cub she realises she is the only one who can see those people. This scares her and when she goes home she sees a demon that attacks her and she passes out.
Clary later wakes up in a hospital type bed but she's not in a hospital. It turns out that the three people she had met before had taken her and helped her get better. I ended at a part where she returns home to see how it looks and finds that it has been stripped clean of everything inside.
As I get further into the book "speak" I learn that she is very depressed and upset so much that she decides to cut school, she decides to go to the mall. This reminds me of when me and my friends went to the grocery store after a Latin Club meeting instead of marching band practice because we didn't feel like going, but she wanted to cut school just to get away from her depression. I feel sorry for her that people have to treat her so mean because she doesn't fit into a group, and people make her an outcast, even her friend Heather doesn't want to be her friend anymore because she's worried about her reputation. It reminds me of elementary school where I was the outcast, for some reason no one seemed to like me, I got bullied most of my elementary school life. I had a couple of so called "friends" but I felt like they just kept on using me because I was an easy target. I didn't find my closest best friend until half way through Middle School and that was because she was in my band class. Most of my good friends are in band, I don't know what I would do without them, they're always there for me, even the ones who graduated last year are there for me whenever I need them.
People were starting to get worried about Malinda so her and her parents went to go talk to the principle. I think the reason why she's so depressed i because her parents don't seem to understand her. This reminds me of me and my Mom, we are complete opposites, for example, she thinks every little thing me and my little brother do should be perfect, she get mad when I don't do my hair or makeup good enough, or when I wear baggy t-shirts to school, and when she tries to fix it, and tells me that I should look more like a girl, I tell her I like it the way it is, and she thinks I'm careless, but she doesn't understand that I have bigger things to worry about more than the way I look.
At this moment, Malinda is trying to change herself because she is tired of being treated the way she is, she starts buying new clothes to wear and she even went to a basketball game to try and feel normal. I disagree with her decision because I think she should be able to exspres herself in her own way, and not worry about what anyone else says because she will one day find someone that likes her for just being herself.
People were starting to get worried about Malinda so her and her parents went to go talk to the principle. I think the reason why she's so depressed i because her parents don't seem to understand her. This reminds me of me and my Mom, we are complete opposites, for example, she thinks every little thing me and my little brother do should be perfect, she get mad when I don't do my hair or makeup good enough, or when I wear baggy t-shirts to school, and when she tries to fix it, and tells me that I should look more like a girl, I tell her I like it the way it is, and she thinks I'm careless, but she doesn't understand that I have bigger things to worry about more than the way I look.
At this moment, Malinda is trying to change herself because she is tired of being treated the way she is, she starts buying new clothes to wear and she even went to a basketball game to try and feel normal. I disagree with her decision because I think she should be able to exspres herself in her own way, and not worry about what anyone else says because she will one day find someone that likes her for just being herself.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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